James Ray Renton—thief, counterfeiter, and bank robber—becameone of America’s Ten Most Wanted Men when he was charged withmurdering a young Arkansas policeman in 1976. After a daring escapefrom the Tucker Maximum Security Unit in the 1980s, Renton made theFBI’s Fifteen Most Wanted List before eventually being recaptured.Then, while in solitary confinement, Renton wrote a 60-page accountof his escape and adventures, sent in a series of letters to DannyLyon, a close friend of Renton’s since they had met in the Texasprison system in 1967.
After Renton’s death in 1995, Lyon visited the Arkansas townwhere Renton had been convicted. Following an incredible papertrail left behind by the crime and 1978 trial (in which Lyon hadtestified), Lyon located Dinker Cassel, who was sentenced to lifealong with Renton for the murder. Like a Thief’s Dream is Lyon’sgripping story of two men—one alive, the other dead—and anunparalleled portrayal of prison life in the 1980s and 1990s. Atale of murder and betrayal, romance and robbery, Like a Thief’sDream is Lyon’s first work of non-fiction in text form, a work ofrealism based almost entirely on documents including police and FBArecords, prison and police mug shots, tape recordings made by theFBI and the author, Renton’s own written account of his escape,letters from other prisoners to the author and to each other, andphotographs made by Lyon and anonymous police photographers.
【作者简介】
Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn. While studying history at theUniversity of Chicago, Lyon joined the Student NonviolentCoordinating Committee as their first staff photographer. One ofthe best-known photojournalists today, Lyon has produced elevenbooks of photography and twelve nonfiction films. His books includeIndian Nations (Twin Palms, 2002), Knave of Hearts (Twin Palms,1999), a memoir, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement(University of North Carolina, 1992), Merci Gonaives (Bleak Beauty,1988), an account of the 1986 Haitian revolution, and Conversationswith the Dead (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), the first book bya photojournalist inside the American prison system. Lyon recentlyrepublished his second book, the acclaimed The Destruction of LowerManhattan, with powerHouse Books. He has received a RockefellerFellowship in filmmaking, Guggenheim fellowships for photographyand filmmaking, and numerous fellowships from the NationalEndowment for the Arts. His photographs are in the collections ofThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute ofChicago; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Library of Congress,Washington, DC; as well as other museums throughout the world. Lyonlives in Ulster County, New York and Sandoval County, NewMexico.
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